forecast

Robot intelligence should be centralized in the cloud

For millions of humanoids, most intelligence should live in the cloud—a capable model batch-processing at high efficiency does planning and long-horizon tasks, pushing commands to robots that interpolate actions and handle only local sensing like weight and force—because on-device compute can't batch, can't be as intelligent, and would divert scarce leading-edge low-power chips from AI data centers.

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Speaker

Dylan Patel

Evidence Quote

So now that 200 gigawatts gets lower if you’re deploying millions of humanoids.

Source

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast - Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI computeDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:34:26 AM

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